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The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) sent Aditya L1 to the Sun to study the Sun's atmosphere. It took off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, Andhra Pradesh, on September 2, 2023.
The Aditya L1 mission is a 737 kg (1,626 lb) satellite that will be put the spacecraft is positioned in a halo orbit encircling the Sun-Earth L1 Lagrange point., which is about 1.5 million kilometres (930,000 mi) from Earth. The spaceship will carry seven instruments to study the corona of the Sun. These instruments are:
- A coronagraph that can take very clear pictures of the Sun's corona
- A magnetometer that can measure the magnetic field of the Sun.
- A monitor for particles to measure the solar wind
- A radiometer that measures the energy from the Sun.
- A device to look at the Sun's atmosphere.
The mission of Aditya L1 is scheduled to take five years. Scientists will be able to learn more about the Sun's corona, which is the top layer of its atmosphere. The corona is very hot, but no one really knows how hot it is. Scientists will also learn more about the Sun's magnetic field, which causes solar flares and CMEs, thanks to the Aditya L1 project. Radio communications and power lines on Earth can be messed up by these things.
India's space programme has made a big step forward with the Aditya L1 mission. It is the first journey from India to study the corona of the Sun. Scientists think that the project will help us learn a lot about the Sun and how it affects Earth.
